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History 105 final
history of the US
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/01/2010

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1816
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first party system dead
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Jackson elected president
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1828
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1798
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Alien & Sedition Acts
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1775
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Battle of Lexington
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Treaty of Paris
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1783
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importation of slaves banned
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1808
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Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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Lewis & Clark expidition (date)
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1804
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Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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1831
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Nat Turner Rebellion
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1840
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Liberty Party formed
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1808
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importation of slaves banned
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1787
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constitution written
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constitution written
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1787
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1804
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Lewis and Clark
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1820
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Missouri Compromise
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Welland Canal
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Wheat to Europe
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checks and balances
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suspicion of power
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prolonged resistence to whites by coastal tribes did what?
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gave inland tribes more time to adjust to whites and be able to resist as well
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If you're in Richmond, VA and want to talk to a federalist, where would you go?
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north
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Massachusettes General Court
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a move towards democracy
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Many presidents came from
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Virginia
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election of 1800
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peaceful transfer of power
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolves
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states should be in charge
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Came from a partisan policy
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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what made federal laws supreme?
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the constitution
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the writers of the constitution wanted to make the federal government what?
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stronger and less involved with immediate concerns
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the founders were suspicious of any unchecked power in what branch?
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all of them
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From the importance the Constitution gave it, the founders believed the power would lie where?
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Legislative Branch
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At the Constitutional Convention, Madison...?
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got some of what he wanted, but not all
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Who believed in the capacity of reason to design governments and was skeptical that people would always act rationally?
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Madison
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nullified federal power
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolves
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Early constitutional question
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national banks
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the constitution was created to correct what parts of the confederation?
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lack of stable source of revenue and inability to control commerce
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the confederation government was successful with what?
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Establishing a survey and statehood policy in western land; and setting up basic federal offices
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Who would be most likely to support Hamilton's economic program?
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Boston Merchant
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Land survey system
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policy for social purposes
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what did the first party system have?
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Federalists and republicans
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on the question of the division of powers between states and the federal government, the constitution established
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a boundary that would separate the two and make it understood where each would stand
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the major forces driving the first party system were what?
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public finances and foreign policy
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Tax the colonists
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Sugar Act
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2nd party system issue
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internal improvements
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often appealed to christian doctrine and rhetoric
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militant abolition
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the debates over the Alient & Sedition Acts continue to be important because:
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balancing dissent and loyalty
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The Alien and Sedition Acts relied on what?
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the English law of seditious libel
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states disagree about:
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report on public credit
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Democracy rules!
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Election of 1800
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cotton gin
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slavery
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through his public life and into his retirement, Madison grappled witht he problems of what?
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balancing state and federal powers
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Madison was always concerned with what?
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religious freedom
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Who would be most affected by the Alien and Sedition acts?
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A republican newspaper editor
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a representative of which state would least likely support federal funding of internal improvements?
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South Carolina
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Madison was most worried abouw what branch?
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Legislative
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the rise of the cotton kingdom depended on what?
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cloth and thread production
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conditional defense of slavery proved inadequate because of what?
Definition
national abolition of slavery and religioius beliefs
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one reason many people opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories was fear that the rich slave owners would get all of the best land (T/F)
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true
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The Free soil Movement embraced abolition but opposed violent measures to end slavery (T/F)
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False
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northern states began abolishing slavery as a result of what?
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revolutionary committment to equality
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who favored a strong central government?
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alexander hamilton
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Martin Van Buren was who's ally?
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Jackson
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western states opposed what?
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2nd Bank of the US
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who set the precedents for presidency?
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George Washington
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what party created a new commercial program?
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Whigs
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was not in the founding era
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Jackson
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wanted an agrarian america
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Thomas Jefferson
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created the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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created the political machine
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Thurlow Weed
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science for the new world
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Lewis and Clark
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1857
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Dred Scott Case
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1798
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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1854
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republican party starts forming
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1816
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first party system dead
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